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ENC-902423DATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 43%
Shawnee Black Triangle and Follow-Up Investigation
August 21, 2009; related follow-up sightings August 27 and later officer interviewShawnee, Kansas neighborhood pond, Kansas, United States
Six teenagers reported a low, slow black triangle with many underside lights; three were formally interviewed. A separate police officer several miles away later described and photographed a similar triangular object. MUFON conducted extensive environmental, utility and aircraft checks.
// LINKED CLASSIFICATIONS:Triangle / V / Boomerang(C-000254)→
// PROVENANCE COVERAGE
43% record completeness
This measures documentation coverage, not whether the encounter or its claims are true.
0 SOURCES · 0 PRIMARY
Date documented
August 21, 2009; related follow-up sightings August 27 and later officer interview
Location documented
Shawnee, Kansas neighborhood pond, Kansas, United States
Map coordinates available
No latitude/longitude is available for mapping.
Catalogue classification linked
1 family link(s), 0 case-specific component(s).
Published citation-backed claims
0 encounter-target claim(s), 0 component claim(s).
Source coverage
0 unique source edition(s); 0 marked primary for at least one claim.
Assessment has encounter-level provenance
Assessment fields exist, but no encounter-target published citation-backed claim currently supports them.
Assessment values are present without encounter-target published citation-backed claims. Treat the matrix as unprovenanced metadata until direct claims are added.
Witness totals are stored, but no encounter-level cited claim currently documents where those numbers came from.
// ASSESSMENT METADATA
Stored case-assessment fields
Stored total witness estimate7
Stored verified-report count0
Instrumental evidence flagNO
Official investigation flagNO
These stored assessment values are shown transparently but should not be treated as source-backed facts until encounter-target claims cite their provenance.